動詞
どうし · doushi · JLPT N3 · noun
verb
🏃 動詞 = move + word: a verb is a word that moves
動 (dou) means move, as in 動物 (animal: moving thing). 詞 (shi) means word, as in 名詞 (noun: name word). So a verb is the action word, the one in a sentence that does something.